New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

🇺🇦🚀 Fire Point: Our anger cannot be measured. But we will do everything to help the Ukrainian Defense Forces force the enemy to peace.

Even in a society where we are constantly bombarded with the message that we should expect (or even embrace) constant surveillance, there is still considerable pushback.

Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears

Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all

theguardian.com

"Flock is deploying drones this September in places like Lancaster, NY." - @ jsrailton John Scott-Railton 🔗 x.com/jsrailton/st...

John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) on X

You're sitting in your backyard, kids in the inflatable pool. Then the high-pitched scream of small motors. And a large drone is hovering over them. You shout for the kids to go inside. They run. M...

x.com

x.com/hunter_weiss... from the DARPA competition

🇺🇦🚀 Today the first international integration track of Freyja project is completed, - Shtilierman

he could rebrand for his real expertise, offer a course called "Guile"

metaphor for DNC

Want to resist imposed genAI use in your workplace? There’s some advice and inspiration in here (h/t @readywriting.bsky.social) aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

aftermath.site

keep it up, hassett, it's not as if price led demand destruction in advance of a prolonged decrease in both flows & stocks is important

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7d ago

HASSETT: WILL CONTINUE MEASURES TO KEEP OIL PRICE DOWN IF NEEDED

"everyone is all into longevity whatever but I think aging might be a gift because it's still entirely too weird when young people entirely too full of life at a physical and cognitive full throttle die and the slow decay of your body might ease the transition out of existence" - zeta_globin

"Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in, powered by Nano Banana 2. It went live today, worldwide, for everyone, with no waitlist and no application. (2/5)" - hankvaness "type whatever you want to see"

This tech fundamentally alters the way people are able to express their basic human rights, and is incompatible with any society that claims to be free. As people understand the capabilities of the tech and how widespread it is, the backlash is entirely understandable.

Why Flock surveillance cameras are drawing fierce backlash across Massachusetts - The Boston Globe

People tolerate Ring cameras, cellphones, and CCTV cameras — but Flock Safety has some filling city council meetings in protest.

bostonglobe.com

The problem with bitcoin is you can’t use it as insulation to weather the frigid nights as you journey across the searing asphalt of abandoned data center parking lots to avoid the militias on your way north

seems like a good idea, how to prepare meals from whole foods for under $5 'health sec promotes whole foods' should bring a yawn not a pile-on condemnation the replies answer the question "why do dems have such low support despite the genuinely objectionable things the current admin is doing"

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · last wk.

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The fire at the Wildberries logistics hub in Sarapul after today’s attack resembles a volcanic eruption, with a vast column of smoke rising above the site.

Well that's telling

I think Bluesky doesn't get just how many groups didn't migrate over. If you're even somewhat seriously in the OSINT space, you're stuck on twitter because of how few international communities moved over. This is an almost purely US-UK site.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2w ago

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

the climate change discourse is a learned helplessness machine even if reached net zero tomorrow , projections are it would take centuries to get back to normal* (MIT Climate Portal) urgen action should be about mitigations to make life easier, what people can do now to help make things /...

#Sociology has been in the news a lot lately. A new piece just dropped in @wsj.com, featuring some comments from me. Per usual, they only used a few sentences from the hour+ conversation. Let me to expand a bit below. tldr: my answer to the titular question is an emphatic "no"🧵

Everyone on here insisted the public consultation was a sham but I’m glad Toronto people filled it out anyway!

Ben Spurr@benspurr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Big news: Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

"Since 2013, I had been hearing that global coal demand had either "peaked" or was "about to peak." Instead, growth has continued. So much that from 2013 to 2026, the world has added the annual coal consumption of Japan — twice. (FWIW: Japan is the world's top-4 coal consumer)." - Javier Blas

More good footage of burning warehouses in Leningrad region, Russia after this morning's strikes.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two key Wildberries logistics hubs near St. Petersburg were struck overnight, Shushary and Utkina Zavod, the main distribution centers for the entire Northwest region.

The dystopian future of everyone wearing sunglasses and being stuck trying to figure out if they are pervert glasses or anti-pervert glasses.

These 'Anti-Facial Recognition' Glasses Block Surveillance Cameras

'We’re making a firewall for your face.'

petapixel.com

"⚠️Lloyd’s Market Association, a group representing maritime insurance underwriters, said in a newly drafted clause for shipping policies that paying a toll to Iran directly or via any of its agents is illegal. If ships pay the toll, it can void the ship’s entire insurance policy" - @ chigirl

about a quarter of California's oil comes from the Middle East

and that was before the recent escalations

ornamentalseashell@ornamentalseashell.bsky.social · 3w ago

commodity guys were thinking mid-July would be when things a start getting more tricky looks on track

"India just banned its sailors from the Strait of Hormuz. India supplies 310,000 seafarers to the world's merchant fleet. That's the 2nd largest in the world. The Philippines, number 1, already did the same. No crew, no transit." - @ puckrin @ dgshipping_IN

*US LARGEST GRID FELL SHORT OF KEY POWER SUPPLY GOAL IN AI BOOM *PJM FALLS 6.8 GIGAWATTS SHORT OF RELIABILITY REQUIREMENT GOAL